 | John Milton - 1746 - 464 pages
...from thence Due nourifhment, not gluttenous delight : 'Till many years over thy head return, So may'ft thou live ; "till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or, be with eale 536 Gather'd, not harflily pluck'd, for death mature. This is old age: but then, thou mutt out-live... | |
 | John Milton - 1754 - 244 pages
...thencs Due nourishment , .no glunonous delight: 'Till many yean over thy .head return , . So may'ft thou live; 'till , like ripe fruit, thou drop . Into thy mother's lap ; or, be with cafe Ca ther'd ; not harshly plucked ; for death aatuie* . This is Old Age : but then , thou muft out-live... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...from thence Due nouri(hment, not glutonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So niaift thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with eafe GatherM, not hardily pluckt, for death mature : This is old age ; but then thou muft outlive Thy... | |
 | 1776 - 478 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease i' '.i. ."' Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature This is old age ; but then thou must outlive... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease 536 Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. This is old age ; but then thou must outlive Thy... | |
 | William Dodd - 1796 - 306 pages
...fatisfaction we have received from fo well-wrote and entertaining a performance. CHAP. XI. 60 may'ft thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or he with eafe Gather'd, not harfhly pluck'd, for Death mature. This is old age ; hut then thou mutt... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayM iliou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or he with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd,for death mature. This is uld age; hut then thou must outlive... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1801 - 436 pages
...feekingfrom thence Due nourifhment, not gluttonous delight,. Till many years ovef thy head return : So may'ft thou live, 'till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with eafe Gather'.!, not harflily pluck'd ; in death mature. So alfo, in deferibing to him the various modes... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...seeking from thenc* Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature : This is old age ; but then thou must outlive Thy... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 pages
...violence ; in oppofition to gentlenefe, unltfs in the following paiTage it rather lignifies unripely __ 'Till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with eale Gather'd, not harfhly pluck'd. Milton. }. Severely; morolt-ly ; crabbedly. — I would rather... | |
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if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop... 
